Precise Technique
Never deal Critical Strikes [1]
Precise Technique (often referred to as PT) is a keystone passive skill that causes you to deal 40% more Attack damage if your Accuracy Rating is higher than your Maximum Life, but prevents you from dealing critical strikes.
Mechanics
Damage over Time and Ailments are never considered Attack Damage.
Never deal Critical Strikes takes precedent over sources of guaranteed Critical Strikes such as 
Replica TrypanonReplica Trypanon
Great MalletTwo Hand Mace
Physical Damage: 43-88
Critical Strike Chance: 100.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.25
Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 40, 131 Str30% increased Stun Duration on Enemies-5000 to Accuracy Rating
This Weapon's Critical Strike Chance is 100%"The best place for this prototype would be in the hands of our enemies."
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Strategy
Precise Technique is best allocated on characters that either have very little life (e.g Chaos Inoculation builds), can get large amounts of accuracy with minor investment (e.g. Hollow Palm Technique Dexterity stacking builds), and/or have limited passives to invest into critical strike chance and multiplier. Juggernaut can also use this; however, Juggernauts typically prefer to go the crit route due to preferring to use 
OskarmOskarm
Nubuck GlovesEvasion: (109-122)Requires Level 52, 50 Dex(30-40)% increased Global Accuracy Rating
+(40-50) to maximum Life
-(20-10)% to Chaos Resistance
+(10-12)% chance to Suppress Spell Damage
Trigger Level 10 Assassin's Mark when you Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy and have no Mark
2% increased Attack Critical Strike Chance per 200 Accuracy RatingLand and sea did not dissuade,
nor did the Kelpie's maw;
the wild beast crossed half the world
to sate his hungry claw.
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Modifiers to critical strike chance and multiplier no longer have any effect and can be ignored when assessing equipment.
Life-based builds will typically need to invest somewhat into accuracy, such as getting it on Weapons, Helmets, Gloves, Shields, Rings, or Amulets. the Accuracy Mastery "Dexterity's Accuracy Bonus instead grants +3 to Accuracy Rating per Dexterity" can be useful on right-side tree builds, and incredibly strong on Hollow Palm builds.
CI builds (due to have only 1 Maximum Life) will not need to invest any further into accuracy, having already exceeded the requirement due to the baseline accuracy obtained from Dexterity on all characters.
Additional Accuracy SupportAdditional Accuracy SupportAttack, Support
Icon: a
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Requires Level 8Supports attack skills.Supported Skills have +(74-1034) to Accuracy Rating
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Accuracy RatingThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
can contribute to the accuracy threshold for supported skills. Stats with a hit-specific condition such as "increased Accuracy Rating against Unique Enemies" cannot.
Precise Technique vs Elemental Overload vs Critical Strikes
Precise Technique provides a more consistent damage bonus, but may be harder to reach for characters built in the Strength or Intelligence areas of the tree. Non-CI builds may require some additional investment to meet the requirement Accuracy Rating. It also will not apply to Ignite or Damage over Time, but will apply to Physical or Chaos damage attacks.
Elemental Overload provides a more generic damage bonus, applying to damage over time and Ignites, but only affects Elemental Damage (Poison dealt via Elemental Damage included), and requires the character to crit within the past 8 seconds with the damaging skill. This requires at least a certain amount of attack/cast speed, hit rate, and/or crit chance. This can be difficult to achieve for skills with long wind-ups or slow speeds (e.g. 
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Vaal GauntletsArmour: (232-266)
Energy Shield: (80-100)Requires Level 63, 100 StrGrants Level 20 Doryani's Touch Skill
+(80-100) to maximum Energy Shield
30% chance to Shock
Adds (150-225) to (525-600) Lightning Damage to Unarmed Melee Hits
Adds (90-135) to (315-360) Lightning Damage to Spells while Unarmed
+(200-250) Energy Shield gained on Killing a Shocked Enemy
30% increased Effect of Lightning AilmentsDoryani's ingenuity raised the Vaal Empire to unprecedented heights. His curiosity reduced it to ruins and bones.
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Sinner TricorneEvasion: (719-925)Requires Level 64, 138 DexGrants Level 30 Snipe Skill
Socketed Non-Channelling Bow Skills are Triggered by Snipe
Socketed Triggered Bow Skills gain a 0.05 second Cooldown
+(350-500) to Accuracy Rating
+(350-500) to Evasion Rating
+2 to maximum Snipe Stages
+(14-20)% chance to Suppress Spell Damage while ChannellingA moment of calm before the battle can end the war.
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Regular critical builds have a much higher ceiling of damage, not being capped only by the 40% More multiplier, but requires additional investment in gear and passives. However, it also has other perks that are not (easily) accessible on the other two playstyles, such as easy access to Elusive or Tailwind, as well as consistent Freezes.
Location
Precise Technique is located in the bottom right-area of the passive tree, between the duelist and ranger starts.
| Class | Distance from start |
|---|---|
| Witch | 24 |
| Templar | 24 |
| Scion | 14 |
| Shadow | 16 |
| Marauder | 17 |
| Duelist | 9 |
| Ranger | 8 |
Related items
Base items
The following base items are related to Precise Technique:
| Item |  | Stats |
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Unique items
The following unique items are related to Precise Technique:
| Item | Base Item | | Stats | ||
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Skin of the Lords Skin of the LordsSimple RobeMovement Speed: -3%Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden) Sockets cannot be modified +2 to Level of Socketed Gems 100% increased Global Defences You can only Socket Corrupted Gems in this item Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden) <Random Keystone>CorruptedThe Lords are chosen so carefully. Only they may grace His flesh.  | Simple Robe | 1 | Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden) Sockets cannot be modified +2 to Level of Socketed Gems 100% increased Global Defences You can only Socket Corrupted Gems in this item Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden)
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Version history
| Version | Changes |
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| 3.17.0 |
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